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->'''Official Name:''' SS-Ordensstaat Lotharingen, Lothringen (Meinhof)
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!''Ulrike Meinhof''
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy
->See her entry in the [[Characters/TNOGermany Germany subpage]].
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy
->See her entry in the [[Characters/TNOGermany Germany subpage]].
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* AssholeVictim: Heydrich has two options to deal with Freistaat Prußen; either reunite with it diplomatically, or conquer it by force. The player is incentivized to forgo the diplomatic option and instead conquer it by force, since Eichmann heavily favors Himmler over Heydrich (making it far harder to convert him to Heydrich's side), and also because Freistaat Prußen is the most explicitly genocidal warlord state in the SS Civil War.
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* AssholeVictim: Heydrich has two options to deal with Freistaat Prußen; either reunite with it diplomatically, or conquer it by force. The player is incentivized to forgo the diplomatic option and instead conquer it by force, since Eichmann heavily favors Himmler over Heydrich (making it far harder is quite hard to convert him Eichmann to Heydrich's side), side, and also because Freistaat Prußen is the most explicitly genocidal warlord state in the SS Civil War.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light. If he wins the confrontation, he [[HeelRealization realizes his entire ideology was built on bunk]] since [[EnemyMine he had to cooperate with even "subhuman" Poles who showed nothing but honesty in their deals]], [[ApeShallNeverKillApe spilled more "Aryan" blood across two civil wars than any supposed Jewish plot ever did]], and [[BrokenPedestal his idol was nothing but a utter maniac with no grasp on sanity]]. [[DrivenToSuicide He kills himself]] from the mental breakdown. If he loses the nuke supremacy during the confrontation, giving Himmler enough arsenal to start the global holocaust, he screams the names of his children in horror and agony, trying to find a safe place to send them, even the "jewish United States" in tears. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes indeed.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light. If he wins the confrontation, he [[HeelRealization realizes his entire ideology was built on bunk]] since [[EnemyMine he had to cooperate with even "subhuman" Poles who showed nothing but honesty in their deals]], dealings]], [[ApeShallNeverKillApe spilled more "Aryan" blood across two civil wars than any supposed Jewish plot ever did]], and [[BrokenPedestal his idol was nothing but a utter maniac with no grasp on sanity]]. [[DrivenToSuicide He kills himself]] from the mental breakdown. If he loses the nuke supremacy during the confrontation, giving Himmler enough arsenal to start the global holocaust, he screams the names of his children in horror and agony, trying to find a safe place to send them, even the "jewish United States" in tears. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes indeed.
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* YouCantKillAnIdea: Despite Willy Brandt’s cause being seemingly lost, the movement refuses to let it die.
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* YouCantKillAnIdea: YouCannotKillAnIdea: Despite Willy Brandt’s cause being seemingly lost, the movement refuses to let it die.
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* TheRemnant: It effectively serves as this for the Polish Underground State.
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* YouCantKillAnIdea: Despite Willy Brandt’s cause being seemingly lost, the movement refuses to let it die.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Upon Heydrich’s death, the Deutsches Reich drops all pretenses of loyalty and openly seek to reunite Germany under a reformed, if not democratic state.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light. If he wins the confrontation, he [[HeelRealization realizes his entire ideology was built on bunk bunk]] since [[EnemyMine he had to cooperate with even "subhuman" Poles who showed nothing but honesty in their deals, deals]], [[ApeShallNeverKillApe spilled more "Aryan" blood across two civil wars than any supposed Jewish plot ever did]], and [[BrokenPedestal his idol was nothing but a utter maniac with no grasp on sanity. sanity]]. [[DrivenToSuicide He kills himself himself]] from the mental breakdown. If he loses the nuke supremacy during the confrontation and gives confrontation, giving Himmler enough arsenal to start the global holocaust, he screams the names of his children in horror and agony, trying to find a safe place to send them, even the "jewish United States" in tears. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes indeed.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: A key contributing factor to Heydrich's HeelRealization is that, thanks to him, [[EnemyCivilWar two different civil wars]] resulted in more spilled [[MasterRace "Aryan"]] blood than any perceived Jewish plot (to say nothing of [[OmnicidalManiac Himmler's psychotic plans to wipe the entire world out with atomic fire]].
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* CaptureTheFlag: The Heydrich playthrough ends in a confrontation game of this. ten areas full of nuclear silos are present all over Germania and both sides diplomatically convince the SS-Warlords to throw their lot with them, though some invasions can happen in specific circumstances. If Himmler captures more nukes than Heydrich, it's an automatic Game Over of DownerEnding. If Heydrich keeps the nuclear supremacy, a final war of confrontation will still be necessary as Heydrich can still lose if Himmler takes territories with silos during the war. The nukes are said to be moveable but the mod is bugged, so it doesn't work.
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* BrokenPedestal: Has this reaction when Himmler [[OmnicidalManiac reveals his plans to cleanse the world in nuclear fire]], and to a lesser extent to Hitler [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame only approving of him for his ruthless cruelty]].
* CaptureTheFlag: The Heydrich playthrough ends in a confrontation game ofthis. this; ten areas full of nuclear silos are present all over Germania and both sides diplomatically convince the SS-Warlords to throw their lot with them, though some invasions can happen in specific circumstances. If Himmler captures more nukes than Heydrich, it's an automatic Game Over of DownerEnding. If Heydrich keeps the nuclear supremacy, a final war of confrontation will still be necessary as Heydrich can still lose if Himmler takes territories with silos during the war. The nukes are said to be moveable but the mod is bugged, so it doesn't work.
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* DecapitatedArmy: When the German Civil War reaches the Anarchy stage and Heinrich Himmler eliminates Heydrich, the chain of command in the German SS immediately breaks down, with Gruppenführer launching power plays and desperate last stands.
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* DecapitatedArmy: When the German Civil War reaches the Anarchy stage and Heinrich Himmler eliminates Heydrich, the chain of command in the German SS immediately breaks down, with Gruppenführer launching power plays and desperate last stands. This also happens after Heydrich wins the SS Civil War, which he [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] in his [[GoodbyeCruelWorld suicide letter to his wife]];
--> "There is only one more barrier preventing this truth from becoming known to all, and I intend to remove it."
--> "There is only one more barrier preventing this truth from becoming known to all, and I intend to remove it."
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* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Heydrich seeks to turn Germany into a Spartanist totalitarian state under the Burgundian System, and is probably the most fanatical Spartanist of any SS officer.
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* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Heydrich seeks to turn Germany into a Spartanist totalitarian state under the Burgundian System, and is probably the most fanatical Spartanist of any SS officer. [[HeelRealization He ultimately realizes how barbaric the system is]] after [[NearVillainVictory barely stopping Himmler from destroying the world]], and [[HeelRealization realizing how much of the death and suffering he caused was his own fault]].
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* GoodbyeCruelWorld: The final event in Heydrich's victory has him write a suicide note to his wife, explaining how [[HeelRealization his devotion to Nazism caused untold suffering for Germany]], [[NearVillainVictory almost let Himmler carry out his apocalyptic scheme]], and [[BeyondRedemption made Heydrich irredeemable]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light. If he wins the confrontation, he realizes his entire ideology was built on bunk since he had to cooperate with even "subhuman" Poles who showed nothing but honesty in their deals, and his idol was nothing but a CompleteMonster utter maniac with no grasp on sanity. He kills himself from the mental breakdown. If he loses the nuke supremacy during the confrontation and gives Himmler enough arsenal to start the global holocaust, he screams the names of his children in horror and agony, trying to find a safe place to send them, even the "jewish United States" in tears. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes indeed.
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->[[HeelRealization How would he save the world, degenerates and all?]]
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* EnemyMine: In his path to stop Himmler's nuclear plot, Heydrich will be forced to work with Speerite, Bormannite, Goeringite, and even native resistance groups (if things are getting truly desperate), so he can reconsolidate his power, secure the nuclear silos, and build an army large enough to counter Himmler's.
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* EnemyMine: In his path to stop Himmler's nuclear plot, Heydrich will be forced to work with Speerite, Bormannite, Goeringite, and even native resistance groups ''the Untermenschen'' (if things are getting truly desperate), so he can reconsolidate his power, secure the nuclear silos, and build an army large enough to counter Himmler's.
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->He solved problems... it's what he had always done... He found his way through things, it's what he did, damn it!
->[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone But how was he ever going to stop Himmler?]]
->[[HeelRealization How would he save the world, degenerates and all?]]
->He solved problems... it's what he had always done... He found his way through things, it's what he did, damn it!
->[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone But how was he ever going to stop Himmler?]]
->[[HeelRealization How would he save the world, degenerates and all?]]
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* CaptureTheFlag: The Heydrich playthrough ends in a confrontation game of this. ten areas full of nuclear silos are present all over Germania and both sides diplomatically convince the SS-Warlords to throw their lot with them, though some invasions can happen in specific circumstances. If Himmler captures more nukes than Heydrich, it's an automatic Game Over of DownerEnding. If Heydrich keeps the nuclear supremacy, a final war of confrontation will still be necessary as Heydrich can still lose if Himmler takes territories with silos during the war. The nukes are said to be moveable but the mod is bugged, so it doesn't work.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light.
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* ShoutOut: Heydrich's first focus to deal with Klingenberg is called "[[Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle Man in the High Castle]]".
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* ShoutOut: The name of Steiner's warlord state ("Attack Group Steiner") appears to be a gag on one of Hitler's quotes in the memetic [[https://hitlerparody.fandom.com/wiki/Original_Bunker_Scene Original Bunker Scene]] from ''Film/{{Downfall}}''
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* ShoutOut: The name of Steiner's warlord state ("Attack Group Steiner") appears to be a gag on one of Hitler's quotes in the memetic [[https://hitlerparody.fandom.com/wiki/Original_Bunker_Scene [[WebVideo/HitlerRants Original Bunker Scene]] from ''Film/{{Downfall}}''''Film/{{Downfall}}''.
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!! ''Felix Steiner''
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-->'''Hitler:''' ''"Mit dem '''Angriff Steiners'''... wird das alles in Ordnung kommen." ("With '''Steiner's [attack]''', that will all come into order.")''
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!!''Karl Dönitz''
See his entry in the [[Characters/TNOEasternEurope Eastern Europe]] under the Gouvernement der Krim folder.
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!!''Otto Ernst Remer''
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See his entry in the [[Characters/TNOGermany Germany subpage]].
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See his entry in the [[Characters/TNOGermany Germany subpage]].
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!! ''Reinhard Gehlen''
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See his entry in the [[Characters/TNOGermany Germany subpage]].
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! Heydrich's Germany contains far more twists and turns than it initially seems. There are major unmarked spoilers ahead! Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
! ''UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich''
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[[caption-width-right:156:Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's Loyalist]]
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[[caption-width-right:156:Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's Betrayer]]
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - SS Faction
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
Even before taking the post of Reichsführer of the German SS after Himmler's attempted coup, Reinhard Heydrich was already known in Germany as an exceptionally brutal and fanatical man, who killed and terrorized his way up the Nazi hierarchy. Now, leading the German SS, the Blonde Beast fully commits himself to Himmler and the principles of the Burgundian System. Heydrich will stop at nothing to fulfill Himmler's orders to totally remake the complacent and decadent Reich in the Spartanist image.
'''...unless the orders themselves demand otherwise.'''
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: His sheer brutality makes him widely hated within Germany, outside of the German SS. However, the German SS only supports him because Himmler does and, if Himmler orders his execution, hardly anyone objects to this.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Even a person as brutal as Heydrich still fears death, and especially death at the hands of his master. If the Civil War enters the Anarchy stage and Himmler considers eliminating him, Heydrich will attempt to beg him for both forgiveness and more time to win the Civil War.
* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light.
* AmazonBrigade: One of the focuses in Heydrich's Deutsch-SS path in his civil war tree sees Heydrich allow recruitment of women into the military due to the difficulty of their situation, spawning an elite division of female soldiers and "liberalizing" the women military law from "Banned From Service" to "Combat Roles"; he justifies it by saying that ancient Germanic tribes brought women into their battles too. It's amusing in a very dark way.
* AmbiguousEnding: The ending of the Heydrich storyline sees Heydrich destroy Burgundy, but then commit suicide due to his crisis of faith. Immediately afterwards, Germany collapses into another Civil War between Herbert Otto Gille and Hans Speidel, but the circumstances surrounding the war are not described at all, and the player doesn't get to play it; this ends the game on a depressive and uncertain future where seemingly nothing has improved while most of Europe is stuck in a pointless ForeverWar.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Germany under Heydrich falls into a de facto state of warlordism; Heydrich's authority exists in name only and only encompasses the region around Germania, while the rest of the country is controlled by a multitude of regional leaders with differing allegiances.
* AssassinOutclassin: In this timeline, Heydrich survived the assassination attempt that historically claimed his life in 1942. In 1950, he survived another assassination attempt, with the would-be assassin dead before he even entered the same building as Heydrich.
* BaitAndSwitch: Fitting with the WhamEpisode-heavy nature of Heydrich's Germany, Heydrich's starting tree (which involves Bunker/Missile production focuses and focuses to deal with the Berzerkers and the Children of Spartakus) is a bait focus tree that cannot be completed. His decision-based minigame to build bunkers and nukes is also a bait and also cannot be completed.
* BalkanizeMe: After he betrays Himmler, Germany becomes fractured into various smaller states, most of which are SS factions aligned with Himmler, though some are Heydrich-aligned and there are also a few Speerite, Bormannite, and Göringite remnants.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: According to the developers, canonically, Adolf Hitler appoints Reinhard Heydrich as his successor because of Heydrich's brutality, and his survival of several assassination attempts. Of course, this does not necessarily means he ''wins'' the ensuing civil war (in fact, Bormann is the canonical winner of the German Civil War), and a player Germany can always pick someone else.
* DarkHorseVictory: Outside of the SS and some marginal Wehrmacht circles, Heydrich doesn't have any genuine support, which is why Hitler proclaiming him as successor comes as a shock to so many people in Germany. Because of said small support, Heydrich cannot win the Civil War at all unless the player is playing as him.
* DecapitatedArmy: When the German Civil War reaches the Anarchy stage and Heinrich Himmler eliminates Heydrich, the chain of command in the German SS immediately breaks down, with Gruppenführer launching power plays and desperate last stands.
* TheDragon: Heydrich is the closest subordinate of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who trusted him enough to hand over the German SS to him upon being sent to Burgundy, and regards him as his plan A to get access to Germany's nukes.
* DrivenToSuicide: At the end of his route, after being abandoned by his loved ones and realizing that his ideology was misguided all along, chooses to end his life. This plunges Germany into its third Civil War of the decade.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Heydrich seeks to turn Germany into a Spartanist totalitarian state under the Burgundian System, and is probably the most fanatical Spartanist of any SS officer.
* EnemyMine: In his path to stop Himmler's nuclear plot, Heydrich will be forced to work with Speerite, Bormannite, Goeringite, and even native resistance groups (if things are getting truly desperate), so he can reconsolidate his power, secure the nuclear silos, and build an army large enough to counter Himmler's.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Heydrich is exceedingly ruthless and a very loyal Nazi, but Himmler's crazed plans to annihilate the world is completely beyond his plans for Germany, and is so destructive that even he is unable to accept it.
* EvilVersusOblivion: The ultimate showdown between Heydrich and Himmler counts as this.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Heydrich is held in both contempt and fear by pretty much all of the Nazi Party, because ''even they'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards consider his brutal ways, views and opinions a tad too extreme]]. The only reason why he still has some political weight to throw around is because Himmler has his back, and therefore the Waffen-SS has it too. Even Himmler doesn't really like him and plans to curtail his power -- [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness if not outright dispose of him]] -- as soon as he finds it convenient.
* FromBadToWorse: Unlike his real life counterpart, [[ForWantOfANail this Heydrich survived the attempt on his life in 1942]]. He became even more paranoid and brutal as a result.
* HeelRealization: As Heydrich goes down the path of betraying Himmler and sabotaging his nuclear plot, his faith in National Socialism becomes increasingly shaken. In his last moments, Heydrich realizes how wicked the Nazi ideals are, and how horrible his actions during the last 20 years were. He also realizes with this that any redemption he would desire [[BeyondRedemption is beyond his reach]].
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Heydrich was already a ruthless Nazi who had a major hand in organizing the Holocaust, but here he's taken his belief in National Socialism to ghoulish new extremes, outright embracing the fanatical insanity that is the Burgundian System.
* KlingonPromotion: Unlike Hitler's other potential successors, who reached their position through various degrees of merit, personal ties and political cunning, Heydrich became the leader of the German SS mostly through butchering his competitors, which greatly impresses Hitler.
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: In all three of his civil war focus tree branches, Heydrich is forced to expand the recruitment standards of the SS in order to address his manpower issues. The Waffen-SS branch in particular sees Heydrich allowing mass recruitment of non-Aryans into the military to fill his manpower gaps.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gets a heavy dose of this after he wins the power struggle against Himmler.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: In the Waffen-SS branch of Heydrich's civil war tree, the increasingly degrading organization of the Waffen-SS leads Heydrich to take a page out of the Red Army's books and create a Waffen-SS Kommissar corps to manage his multi-ethnic and hastily conscripted Waffen-SS horde.
* PragmaticVillainy: Not exactly by choice, but Heydrich's difficult position amidst the German Civil War forces him to broaden conscription for the Waffen-SS and welcome women into the ranks.
* PuppetKing: It's an open secret that Heydrich is a puppet for Himmler.
* PureIsNotGood: Heydrich is fixated on Aryan purity and is pure evil.
* RedBaron: The Blond Beast, the Butcher of Prague, the Man with an Iron Heart, the Young Evil God of Death, Himmler's Evil Genius...
%% * TimedMission: If the Anarchy happens, Himmler can severely punish Heydrich for not being able to win the Civil War in a satisfactory time and annex his territories in the Rhineland and Alsace-Lorraine into Burgundy, complete with Heydrich's remaining nuclear arsenal. One of Heydrich's Anarchy focus trees is literally begging for time out of desperation, because if Himmler gets impatient, he'll get rid of Heydrich.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the end of the Burgundische-SS path in Heydrich's civil war tree, the focus descriptions become increasingly desperate as Himmler becomes more and more dissatisfied at Heydrich's failure to win the civil war and starts to slow down and eventually withdraw his support.
* WhamEpisode: Heydrich's path is features a series of ''highly'' unexpected turns and twists.
** After an entire pre-Civil War setup and a brutal Civil War where Heydrich shows his utter loyalty to Himmler, the end of his first focus tree reveals that Heydrich is ''disgusted'' at Himmler's nuclear plot and plans to ''betray Himmler''.
** After that, for a while it seems like Heydrich will continue running Germany and fulfilling Himmler's demands while conducting his own operations in secret... until plot of Heydrichs' betrayal leaks out, and ''Germany completely collapses into the SS civil war'', with dozens of factions occupying every inch of Germany and Heydrich's own power being restricted to Germania.
!! SS Civil War - Northern Germany
[[folder:Deutsche Notstandsregierung]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/war_ensign_of_germany.png]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
Karl Dönitz's warlord state in Schleswig-Holstein.
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[[folder:Freikorps "Berzerker"]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
The elite Speidel-aligned forces of the 1st Panzergrenadierdivision "Berzerker", who have continued to hold out in Pomerania after Heydrich's victory.
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* UndyingLoyalty: If Heydrich's forces save Speidel and turn him over to his side at the onset of the SS Civil War, Speidel can make contact with Wegener and the Berzerkers, who will immediately join Speidel and Heydrich, instantly maxing out their loyalty to Heydrich and allowing him to immediately annex them.
!! ''Ulrich Wegener''
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[[folder:SS-Ordensstaat Lotharingen]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
An upstart SS-Ordensstaat located to the west of the Rhine led by SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke. Eicke has professed his absolutely loyalty to Himmler and openly declared Heydrich a traitor, and started his own Order-State to realize the Burgundian vision.
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* LaResistance: Since Eicke's Ordensstaat is located around Essen (which used to be Speer's centre of power), Heydrich can decide to exploit that and aid the Speerite rebels so he can subvert Eicke.
!!''Theodor Eicke''
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[[folder:SS-Oberabschnitt Westfalen]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
An SS command in Westphalia headed by the newly promoted Obergruppenführer Fritz Klingenberg. Klingenberg's SS units have become increasingly divided between pro-Heydrich and pro-Himmler elements, and Klingenberg himself is becoming increasingly desperate.
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* BigFancyCastle: Originally the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler, the Wewelsburg Citadel was a planned expansion of Wewelsburg Castle to a massive scale, so that it would serve as the new capital for the Aryan race. Though the project was never begun before the West Russian War, Klingenberg has made accomplishing the Reichsführer's vision his top priority. He hopes that, upon seeing his ability to carry out such a massive project and seeing his dream come to vision, Himmler will grant Klingenberg control over more land across Germany.
* EnemyCivilWar: Klingenberg's hardline SS partisan hunters have begun to suspect and accuse one another of being the enemy. What these men used to scour forest hideouts and basements searching for partisans, they now scour the patrol bases and headquarters of their fellow units, suspecting one another of being one of Heydrich's traitors.
!!''Fritz Klingenberg''
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[[folder:Militärisches Sondergericht des Reiches]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism
Otto Ernst Remer's fiefdom in Hannover, who had seized the leadership of the German Militarist remnants after Heydrich's victory resulted in the death of Göring and the disappearance of Schörner. Remer, who declared himself a ''Generalfeldmarschall'', plans to crush the traitor Heydrich and Schörner (whom Remer believes is plotting a pro-Heydrich conspiracy), and is searching through every inch of Hannover to root out traitorous activities, even taking up Burgundian support in his crusade against treason.
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!! SS Civil War - Eastern Germany
[[folder:Freistaat Prußen]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
A state located in Prussia headed by the current head of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, Adolf Eichmann, who has restarted systematic extermination of the local Untermenschen.
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* AssholeVictim: Heydrich has two options to deal with Freistaat Prußen; either reunite with it diplomatically, or conquer it by force. The player is incentivized to forgo the diplomatic option and instead conquer it by force, since Eichmann heavily favors Himmler over Heydrich (making it far harder to convert him to Heydrich's side), and also because Freistaat Prußen is the most explicitly genocidal warlord state in the SS Civil War.
!!''Adolf Eichmann''
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* FinalSolution: Eichmann intends to fully exterminate racial degeneracy in Prussia, and has restarted the camps and expanded the extermination targets to everyone who fails to live up to the ideals of the SS.
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[[folder:Children of Spartakus]]
->'''Ideology:''' Liberal Democracy
A Polish slave resistance based in Königsberg. As Heydrich's Spartanist rule commits their endless German-on-German violence, they have seized the chance and risen up.
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!! ''Kazimierz Piechowski''
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[[folder:Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
Gestapo functionary Klaus Barbie's pro-Himmler warlord state in Danzig.
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!! ''Klaus Barbie''
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* RedBaron: Just like in real life, Barbie is known as the Butcher of Lyon.
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[[folder:Kommandostab Waffen-SS]]
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->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism (Gille), Ultranationalism (Stadler), Burgundian System (Hausser)
A Waffen-SS command based in Posen.
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!! ''Herbert Otto Gille''
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->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
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!! ''Sylvester Stadler''
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism
!! ''Paul Hausser''
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
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[[folder:Schlesischer Industriebund]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
!! ''Karl Hanke''
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[[folder:SS-Kampfgruppe Fegelein]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
A warlord state based in Dresden led by the egocentric and cynical Nazi socialite Hermann Fegelein, who has sided with Himmler and broadcasts anti-Heydrich propaganda through his propaganda machine.
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!! ''Hermann Fegelein''
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: In "An Appeal To Degeneracy", Fegelein will sell out Himmler and side with Heydrich when Heydrich offers him some material concessions. Immediately afterwards, Heydrich will have Fegelein executed and annex his warlord state.
* ShoutOut: Heydrich's first focus for interaction with Fegelein is called "Fegelein, Fegelein, Fegelein...", echoing Hitler's infamous rant from ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' where he learns about Fegelein's desertion.
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[[folder:Arische Volksfront]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
The SS breakaway state made up of the Sudeten-German SS.
!! ''Konrad Henlein''
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* TheResenter: Since his appointment as Reichstaathalter of the Sudetenland in 1938, Henlein has had a fateful rivalry with Heydrich--a rivalry which he would eventually come out the loser, passed over for promotion after promotion as Heydrich ascended higher and higher. For years Henlein toiled, never getting that promotion to Gauleiter he always coveted, watching as Heydrich rose to leader of the German SS, and then Führer.
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!! SS Civil War - Southern Germany
[[folder:Leibstandarte Heinrich Himmler]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!! ''Wilhelm Mohnke''
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* UndyingLoyalty: Mohnke is absolutely loyal to Himmler, and Heydrich has no way to turn Mohnke over to his side; his only two options to deal with him are either to attempt to negotiate a deal and withdraw some pro-Heydrich manpower from Mohnke's territory, or attempt to assassinate him.
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[[folder:Angriffsgruppe Steiner]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!! ''Felix Steiner''
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[[folder:SS-Arbeitslager Nürnberg]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!! ''Ernst Kaltenbrunner''
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* UndyingLoyalty: As with Mohnke, Kaltenbrunner is also fully loyal to Himmler, and the only way Heydrich could deal with him is to either declare war on him or subvert his dominance over Nuremberg from within.
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[[folder:Oberkommando der Luftwaffe]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
!! ''Johannes Steinhoff''
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[[folder:Deutsches Reich]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
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* TheRemnant: As the SS civil war engulfs Germany, reformists and conservatives, who once supported Speer and Bormann during the first Civil War, flock to Ravensburg, finding common cause in defending the Fatherland from Himmler's bloody grasp.
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[[folder:Die Schwarze Bande]]
->'''Ideology:''' Despotism
!!''Sepp Dietrich''
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See his entry in the [[Characters/TNOBurgundy Burgundy subpage]].
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[[folder:Österreich]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
The Northeastern portion of Austria under the rule of SS commander Otto Skorzeny, who has decided to stay neutral in the SS Civil War.
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* EliteArmy: Skorzeny has brought his elite Commandos, who have served him for more than twenty years, from Burgundy to Vienna, and has no interest in raising more.
!! ''Otto Skorzeny''
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* HistoricalInJoke: When reviewing the loyalty of various SS commanders, Heydrich remarks that Skorzeny would probably even work for the damned Jews if their terms were good enough, alluding to how the real Skorzeny ended up working for Israel after World War II.
* TeamSwitzerland: Skorzeny has decided to stay neutral in the Himmler-Heydrich rivalry, and wait out the conflict to see who comes out on top.
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[[folder:Kampfgruppe Heilige Pflicht]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
Consisting of the German states of Tyrol and Slovenia, they use the Alps to their defensive advantage. The mountains, along with leader Joachin Peiper's experience in defence, make them a tough foe to break.
!!''Joachim Peiper''
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peiper is a ruthless SS commander whose unit was infamous for its long history of massacres. However, he too finds Himmler's nuclear plot difficult to swallow, and his support to Heydrich will max out if Heydrich reveals Himmler's nuclear plot to him.
* VillainousFriendship: Heydrich can leverage his personal friendship with Peiper and arrange a meeting, during which Heydrich will show Peiper Himmler's nuclear plot and try to use that to bring him over to his side.
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! ''UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich''
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[[caption-width-right:156:Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's Loyalist]]
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[[caption-width-right:156:Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's Betrayer]]
->'''Party:''' Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - SS Faction
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
Even before taking the post of Reichsführer of the German SS after Himmler's attempted coup, Reinhard Heydrich was already known in Germany as an exceptionally brutal and fanatical man, who killed and terrorized his way up the Nazi hierarchy. Now, leading the German SS, the Blonde Beast fully commits himself to Himmler and the principles of the Burgundian System. Heydrich will stop at nothing to fulfill Himmler's orders to totally remake the complacent and decadent Reich in the Spartanist image.
'''...unless the orders themselves demand otherwise.'''
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: His sheer brutality makes him widely hated within Germany, outside of the German SS. However, the German SS only supports him because Himmler does and, if Himmler orders his execution, hardly anyone objects to this.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Even a person as brutal as Heydrich still fears death, and especially death at the hands of his master. If the Civil War enters the Anarchy stage and Himmler considers eliminating him, Heydrich will attempt to beg him for both forgiveness and more time to win the Civil War.
* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being one of the most horrendous and brutal Nazis both in-game and in real life, Heydrich's final events are very somber and portray him in a sympathetic light.
* AmazonBrigade: One of the focuses in Heydrich's Deutsch-SS path in his civil war tree sees Heydrich allow recruitment of women into the military due to the difficulty of their situation, spawning an elite division of female soldiers and "liberalizing" the women military law from "Banned From Service" to "Combat Roles"; he justifies it by saying that ancient Germanic tribes brought women into their battles too. It's amusing in a very dark way.
* AmbiguousEnding: The ending of the Heydrich storyline sees Heydrich destroy Burgundy, but then commit suicide due to his crisis of faith. Immediately afterwards, Germany collapses into another Civil War between Herbert Otto Gille and Hans Speidel, but the circumstances surrounding the war are not described at all, and the player doesn't get to play it; this ends the game on a depressive and uncertain future where seemingly nothing has improved while most of Europe is stuck in a pointless ForeverWar.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Germany under Heydrich falls into a de facto state of warlordism; Heydrich's authority exists in name only and only encompasses the region around Germania, while the rest of the country is controlled by a multitude of regional leaders with differing allegiances.
* AssassinOutclassin: In this timeline, Heydrich survived the assassination attempt that historically claimed his life in 1942. In 1950, he survived another assassination attempt, with the would-be assassin dead before he even entered the same building as Heydrich.
* BaitAndSwitch: Fitting with the WhamEpisode-heavy nature of Heydrich's Germany, Heydrich's starting tree (which involves Bunker/Missile production focuses and focuses to deal with the Berzerkers and the Children of Spartakus) is a bait focus tree that cannot be completed. His decision-based minigame to build bunkers and nukes is also a bait and also cannot be completed.
* BalkanizeMe: After he betrays Himmler, Germany becomes fractured into various smaller states, most of which are SS factions aligned with Himmler, though some are Heydrich-aligned and there are also a few Speerite, Bormannite, and Göringite remnants.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: According to the developers, canonically, Adolf Hitler appoints Reinhard Heydrich as his successor because of Heydrich's brutality, and his survival of several assassination attempts. Of course, this does not necessarily means he ''wins'' the ensuing civil war (in fact, Bormann is the canonical winner of the German Civil War), and a player Germany can always pick someone else.
* DarkHorseVictory: Outside of the SS and some marginal Wehrmacht circles, Heydrich doesn't have any genuine support, which is why Hitler proclaiming him as successor comes as a shock to so many people in Germany. Because of said small support, Heydrich cannot win the Civil War at all unless the player is playing as him.
* DecapitatedArmy: When the German Civil War reaches the Anarchy stage and Heinrich Himmler eliminates Heydrich, the chain of command in the German SS immediately breaks down, with Gruppenführer launching power plays and desperate last stands.
* TheDragon: Heydrich is the closest subordinate of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who trusted him enough to hand over the German SS to him upon being sent to Burgundy, and regards him as his plan A to get access to Germany's nukes.
* DrivenToSuicide: At the end of his route, after being abandoned by his loved ones and realizing that his ideology was misguided all along, chooses to end his life. This plunges Germany into its third Civil War of the decade.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Heydrich seeks to turn Germany into a Spartanist totalitarian state under the Burgundian System, and is probably the most fanatical Spartanist of any SS officer.
* EnemyMine: In his path to stop Himmler's nuclear plot, Heydrich will be forced to work with Speerite, Bormannite, Goeringite, and even native resistance groups (if things are getting truly desperate), so he can reconsolidate his power, secure the nuclear silos, and build an army large enough to counter Himmler's.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Heydrich is exceedingly ruthless and a very loyal Nazi, but Himmler's crazed plans to annihilate the world is completely beyond his plans for Germany, and is so destructive that even he is unable to accept it.
* EvilVersusOblivion: The ultimate showdown between Heydrich and Himmler counts as this.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Heydrich is held in both contempt and fear by pretty much all of the Nazi Party, because ''even they'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards consider his brutal ways, views and opinions a tad too extreme]]. The only reason why he still has some political weight to throw around is because Himmler has his back, and therefore the Waffen-SS has it too. Even Himmler doesn't really like him and plans to curtail his power -- [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness if not outright dispose of him]] -- as soon as he finds it convenient.
* FromBadToWorse: Unlike his real life counterpart, [[ForWantOfANail this Heydrich survived the attempt on his life in 1942]]. He became even more paranoid and brutal as a result.
* HeelRealization: As Heydrich goes down the path of betraying Himmler and sabotaging his nuclear plot, his faith in National Socialism becomes increasingly shaken. In his last moments, Heydrich realizes how wicked the Nazi ideals are, and how horrible his actions during the last 20 years were. He also realizes with this that any redemption he would desire [[BeyondRedemption is beyond his reach]].
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Heydrich was already a ruthless Nazi who had a major hand in organizing the Holocaust, but here he's taken his belief in National Socialism to ghoulish new extremes, outright embracing the fanatical insanity that is the Burgundian System.
* KlingonPromotion: Unlike Hitler's other potential successors, who reached their position through various degrees of merit, personal ties and political cunning, Heydrich became the leader of the German SS mostly through butchering his competitors, which greatly impresses Hitler.
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: In all three of his civil war focus tree branches, Heydrich is forced to expand the recruitment standards of the SS in order to address his manpower issues. The Waffen-SS branch in particular sees Heydrich allowing mass recruitment of non-Aryans into the military to fill his manpower gaps.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gets a heavy dose of this after he wins the power struggle against Himmler.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: In the Waffen-SS branch of Heydrich's civil war tree, the increasingly degrading organization of the Waffen-SS leads Heydrich to take a page out of the Red Army's books and create a Waffen-SS Kommissar corps to manage his multi-ethnic and hastily conscripted Waffen-SS horde.
* PragmaticVillainy: Not exactly by choice, but Heydrich's difficult position amidst the German Civil War forces him to broaden conscription for the Waffen-SS and welcome women into the ranks.
* PuppetKing: It's an open secret that Heydrich is a puppet for Himmler.
* PureIsNotGood: Heydrich is fixated on Aryan purity and is pure evil.
* RedBaron: The Blond Beast, the Butcher of Prague, the Man with an Iron Heart, the Young Evil God of Death, Himmler's Evil Genius...
%% * TimedMission: If the Anarchy happens, Himmler can severely punish Heydrich for not being able to win the Civil War in a satisfactory time and annex his territories in the Rhineland and Alsace-Lorraine into Burgundy, complete with Heydrich's remaining nuclear arsenal. One of Heydrich's Anarchy focus trees is literally begging for time out of desperation, because if Himmler gets impatient, he'll get rid of Heydrich.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the end of the Burgundische-SS path in Heydrich's civil war tree, the focus descriptions become increasingly desperate as Himmler becomes more and more dissatisfied at Heydrich's failure to win the civil war and starts to slow down and eventually withdraw his support.
* WhamEpisode: Heydrich's path is features a series of ''highly'' unexpected turns and twists.
** After an entire pre-Civil War setup and a brutal Civil War where Heydrich shows his utter loyalty to Himmler, the end of his first focus tree reveals that Heydrich is ''disgusted'' at Himmler's nuclear plot and plans to ''betray Himmler''.
** After that, for a while it seems like Heydrich will continue running Germany and fulfilling Himmler's demands while conducting his own operations in secret... until plot of Heydrichs' betrayal leaks out, and ''Germany completely collapses into the SS civil war'', with dozens of factions occupying every inch of Germany and Heydrich's own power being restricted to Germania.
!! SS Civil War - Northern Germany
[[folder:Deutsche Notstandsregierung]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/war_ensign_of_germany.png]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
Karl Dönitz's warlord state in Schleswig-Holstein.
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[[folder:Freikorps "Berzerker"]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
The elite Speidel-aligned forces of the 1st Panzergrenadierdivision "Berzerker", who have continued to hold out in Pomerania after Heydrich's victory.
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* UndyingLoyalty: If Heydrich's forces save Speidel and turn him over to his side at the onset of the SS Civil War, Speidel can make contact with Wegener and the Berzerkers, who will immediately join Speidel and Heydrich, instantly maxing out their loyalty to Heydrich and allowing him to immediately annex them.
!! ''Ulrich Wegener''
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[[folder:SS-Ordensstaat Lotharingen]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
An upstart SS-Ordensstaat located to the west of the Rhine led by SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke. Eicke has professed his absolutely loyalty to Himmler and openly declared Heydrich a traitor, and started his own Order-State to realize the Burgundian vision.
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* LaResistance: Since Eicke's Ordensstaat is located around Essen (which used to be Speer's centre of power), Heydrich can decide to exploit that and aid the Speerite rebels so he can subvert Eicke.
!!''Theodor Eicke''
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[[folder:SS-Oberabschnitt Westfalen]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
An SS command in Westphalia headed by the newly promoted Obergruppenführer Fritz Klingenberg. Klingenberg's SS units have become increasingly divided between pro-Heydrich and pro-Himmler elements, and Klingenberg himself is becoming increasingly desperate.
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* BigFancyCastle: Originally the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler, the Wewelsburg Citadel was a planned expansion of Wewelsburg Castle to a massive scale, so that it would serve as the new capital for the Aryan race. Though the project was never begun before the West Russian War, Klingenberg has made accomplishing the Reichsführer's vision his top priority. He hopes that, upon seeing his ability to carry out such a massive project and seeing his dream come to vision, Himmler will grant Klingenberg control over more land across Germany.
* EnemyCivilWar: Klingenberg's hardline SS partisan hunters have begun to suspect and accuse one another of being the enemy. What these men used to scour forest hideouts and basements searching for partisans, they now scour the patrol bases and headquarters of their fellow units, suspecting one another of being one of Heydrich's traitors.
!!''Fritz Klingenberg''
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[[folder:Militärisches Sondergericht des Reiches]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism
Otto Ernst Remer's fiefdom in Hannover, who had seized the leadership of the German Militarist remnants after Heydrich's victory resulted in the death of Göring and the disappearance of Schörner. Remer, who declared himself a ''Generalfeldmarschall'', plans to crush the traitor Heydrich and Schörner (whom Remer believes is plotting a pro-Heydrich conspiracy), and is searching through every inch of Hannover to root out traitorous activities, even taking up Burgundian support in his crusade against treason.
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!! SS Civil War - Eastern Germany
[[folder:Freistaat Prußen]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
A state located in Prussia headed by the current head of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, Adolf Eichmann, who has restarted systematic extermination of the local Untermenschen.
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* AssholeVictim: Heydrich has two options to deal with Freistaat Prußen; either reunite with it diplomatically, or conquer it by force. The player is incentivized to forgo the diplomatic option and instead conquer it by force, since Eichmann heavily favors Himmler over Heydrich (making it far harder to convert him to Heydrich's side), and also because Freistaat Prußen is the most explicitly genocidal warlord state in the SS Civil War.
!!''Adolf Eichmann''
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* FinalSolution: Eichmann intends to fully exterminate racial degeneracy in Prussia, and has restarted the camps and expanded the extermination targets to everyone who fails to live up to the ideals of the SS.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Children of Spartakus]]
->'''Ideology:''' Liberal Democracy
A Polish slave resistance based in Königsberg. As Heydrich's Spartanist rule commits their endless German-on-German violence, they have seized the chance and risen up.
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!! ''Kazimierz Piechowski''
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[[folder:Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
Gestapo functionary Klaus Barbie's pro-Himmler warlord state in Danzig.
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!! ''Klaus Barbie''
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* RedBaron: Just like in real life, Barbie is known as the Butcher of Lyon.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kommandostab Waffen-SS]]
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->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism (Gille), Ultranationalism (Stadler), Burgundian System (Hausser)
A Waffen-SS command based in Posen.
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!! ''Herbert Otto Gille''
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->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
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!! ''Sylvester Stadler''
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism
!! ''Paul Hausser''
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
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[[folder:Schlesischer Industriebund]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
!! ''Karl Hanke''
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[[folder:SS-Kampfgruppe Fegelein]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
A warlord state based in Dresden led by the egocentric and cynical Nazi socialite Hermann Fegelein, who has sided with Himmler and broadcasts anti-Heydrich propaganda through his propaganda machine.
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!! ''Hermann Fegelein''
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: In "An Appeal To Degeneracy", Fegelein will sell out Himmler and side with Heydrich when Heydrich offers him some material concessions. Immediately afterwards, Heydrich will have Fegelein executed and annex his warlord state.
* ShoutOut: Heydrich's first focus for interaction with Fegelein is called "Fegelein, Fegelein, Fegelein...", echoing Hitler's infamous rant from ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' where he learns about Fegelein's desertion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Arische Volksfront]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arische_volksfront.png]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
The SS breakaway state made up of the Sudeten-German SS.
!! ''Konrad Henlein''
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* TheResenter: Since his appointment as Reichstaathalter of the Sudetenland in 1938, Henlein has had a fateful rivalry with Heydrich--a rivalry which he would eventually come out the loser, passed over for promotion after promotion as Heydrich ascended higher and higher. For years Henlein toiled, never getting that promotion to Gauleiter he always coveted, watching as Heydrich rose to leader of the German SS, and then Führer.
[[/folder]]
!! SS Civil War - Southern Germany
[[folder:Leibstandarte Heinrich Himmler]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!! ''Wilhelm Mohnke''
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* UndyingLoyalty: Mohnke is absolutely loyal to Himmler, and Heydrich has no way to turn Mohnke over to his side; his only two options to deal with him are either to attempt to negotiate a deal and withdraw some pro-Heydrich manpower from Mohnke's territory, or attempt to assassinate him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Angriffsgruppe Steiner]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!! ''Felix Steiner''
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:SS-Arbeitslager Nürnberg]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arbeitslager_nurnberg.png]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
!! ''Ernst Kaltenbrunner''
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* UndyingLoyalty: As with Mohnke, Kaltenbrunner is also fully loyal to Himmler, and the only way Heydrich could deal with him is to either declare war on him or subvert his dominance over Nuremberg from within.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Oberkommando der Luftwaffe]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ok_luftwaffe.png]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
!! ''Johannes Steinhoff''
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Deutsches Reich]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
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* TheRemnant: As the SS civil war engulfs Germany, reformists and conservatives, who once supported Speer and Bormann during the first Civil War, flock to Ravensburg, finding common cause in defending the Fatherland from Himmler's bloody grasp.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Die Schwarze Bande]]
->'''Ideology:''' Despotism
!!''Sepp Dietrich''
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See his entry in the [[Characters/TNOBurgundy Burgundy subpage]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Österreich]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
The Northeastern portion of Austria under the rule of SS commander Otto Skorzeny, who has decided to stay neutral in the SS Civil War.
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* EliteArmy: Skorzeny has brought his elite Commandos, who have served him for more than twenty years, from Burgundy to Vienna, and has no interest in raising more.
!! ''Otto Skorzeny''
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* HistoricalInJoke: When reviewing the loyalty of various SS commanders, Heydrich remarks that Skorzeny would probably even work for the damned Jews if their terms were good enough, alluding to how the real Skorzeny ended up working for Israel after World War II.
* TeamSwitzerland: Skorzeny has decided to stay neutral in the Himmler-Heydrich rivalry, and wait out the conflict to see who comes out on top.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kampfgruppe Heilige Pflicht]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kampfgruppe_hp.png]]
->'''Ideology:''' Burgundian System
Consisting of the German states of Tyrol and Slovenia, they use the Alps to their defensive advantage. The mountains, along with leader Joachin Peiper's experience in defence, make them a tough foe to break.
!!''Joachim Peiper''
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peiper is a ruthless SS commander whose unit was infamous for its long history of massacres. However, he too finds Himmler's nuclear plot difficult to swallow, and his support to Heydrich will max out if Heydrich reveals Himmler's nuclear plot to him.
* VillainousFriendship: Heydrich can leverage his personal friendship with Peiper and arrange a meeting, during which Heydrich will show Peiper Himmler's nuclear plot and try to use that to bring him over to his side.
[[/folder]]
